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In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Create cake pops in shaped like eyeballs in this extra sweet, gross-out Halloween baking activity!

In this fun activity, your child will create their very own solar oven to bake s'mores!

What’s the best part of fall? Pumpkins! Use this easy recipe to help your child make some delicious smelling pumpkin play dough. They can use their math skills to measure and mix and then have hours of fun playing!

El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days

Here's a fun activity that will allow your child to express himself by making a flag of his own design, then writing an accompanying story.

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to create a device that protects an egg when it is dropped from a height of about 10 feet.

Practice counting to five with your child while making this adorably "scary" ghost to celebrate Halloween.

Give your budding young observers a chance to discover simple machines at use in their own home.

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

Get creative with this engaging activity where kids are asked to create their own pumpkin person and tap into their creative writing skills! Include all family members by having them create their very own pumpkin people.

In this challenge, students are tasked with creating an insulated cup that will keep beverages colder for longer than a regular cup.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

Have fun making recycled paper using scraps of used paper in your home with this hands-on project.

Painting cookies is a fun way for your child to exercise his fine motor skills and be creative at the same time.

Make “teal the new orange” this Halloween season! Help your child learn about the Teal Pumpkin Project and paint the color teal on a pumpkin to advertise that your family will offer non-food toys as a treat, or “trinket” option.

Bring barnyard fun to a rainy day by making this simple pig nose, or make several noses and round up two of your child's friends to act out Three Little Pigs.

Help your second grader to a better understanding of how to count and represent money with age old game of tic-tac-toe.

Need another reason to celebrate Thanksgiving? Now kids can create a sunny, textured sunflower card to remember the day!

With school, home, and activities in between, life can sometimes feel chaotic to kids. Help your child learn how to stop and relax with handmade peace rocks.

The human knot game is a perfect team-building exercise and a fun activity that's sure to bring lots of laughs along the way.

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

This year, celebrate the season with a pumpkin wreath! Have your kid trace and cut patterns to create multiple pumpkin shapes from a single sheet of paper.